Whether running long distances, or executing jumps, or doing all of those things in the same day, the Cazenovia girls track and field team did just about everything well and took home the title from Wednesday’s Onondaga High School League Liberty division championship meet at Marcellus.
The Lakers finished with 146 points, getting away from runner-up Westhill-Bishop Ludden, who was second with 117 points. Skaneateles took third place with 95 points.
Jackie Gamlen began the schedule in the first event of the pentathlon, the 100-meter hurdles, and won there. By the time she claimed the final event, the 800-meter run, Gamlen had 1,726 points and had prevailed over Westhill-Ludden’s Mackenzie Powers (1,595 points) in the runner-up spot.
A sweep of distance races started with Clara Rowles going 1,500 meters in four minutes, 49.06 seconds as part of a 1-2 finish with Meggie Hart, who posted 4:57.10. Then Rowles won the 3,000-meter run in 10:35.26 as no one else broke in the field broke the 11-minute mark.
Hart, who was second in the 800 in 2:29.62 behind Skaneateles’ Julia Willcox (2:23.48), won the last girls race on the schedule, the 2,000-meter steeplechase, going 7:35.63 to beat Westhill-Ludden’s Haylei Coolican (7:49.61) by a comfortable margin. Adrien Owens finished seventh in 8:37.95.
Moving to field events, Maddy Gavitt also won twice for Cazenovia, going 16 feet 1 3/4 inches to edge CBA’s Kiana Ferguson (15’11 1/4″) in the long jump and then getting a top triple jump of 33 feet, just ahead of another CBA athlete, Elissa Kempisty (32’8 1/4″) in second place.
Jamie Joseph contended in the shot put, throwing it 32’7 3/4″ for second place behind Marcellus’ Johanna Sylcox (33’10 1/4″), while Tori Fischer got second place in the high jump, clearing 4’10”, a height only CBA’s Nafysa Williams (5 feet) bettered.
Joseph went 1:13.25 in the 400 hurdles to take fourth place, with Delaney Yates sixth in 1:15.59. Maria Stalder was fourth in the 400-meter dash in 1:03.51, just ahead of Katrina Wilson (1:06.56) in sixth place. In the 4×800 relay, Stalder, Joseph, Mya Walters and Julia Barrett got fourth place in 10:26.38.
Kirsten Underwood went 13.16 seconds to get third place in the 100-meter dash, just ahead of Brenna Hughes (13.44 seconds) in fifth place as Delaney Yates was third in the 100-meter hurdles in 17.52 seconds.
Underwood also was fifth in the 200-meter dash in 27.65 seconds. Yates, Underwood, Brenna Hughes and Jess Macheda finished fifth in the 4×100 relay in 53.13 seconds as Stalder, Yates, Wilson and Barrett were sixth in the 4×400 relay in 4:26.57.
Katie Robbins cleared 8’6″ for third place in the pole vault as Gavitt (7’6″) finished fourth. Fischer was fifth (74’1″) and Joseph sixth (73’10”) in the discus. Macheda got fourth place in the long jump with a leap of 15’4″. Robbins also was sixth in the triple jump (30’10 1/4″) behind Gavitt.
In the boys portion of the OHSL Liberty meet at Marcellus, Cazenovia finished seventh in a 10-team field with 38 points, while Westhill-Ludden glided to the top spot with 135 points.
Alec Boone contended in two sprints, going 11.52 seconds in the 100 to finish second behind CBA’s Tom SanGiacomo, who won in 11.19 seconds. It was the same in the 200, Boone going 23.57 seconds, beating everyone except SanGiacomo’s 22.80 seconds.
In the 3,000-meter steeplechase, James McPherson would post a time of 10:44.68 and gain his own second-place finish, though Westhill-Ludden’s Garnet Remillard pulled away and won in 10:21.18.
Boone, paired with Sean McPherson, Dan McKillop and Elijah Wellington-Harper, took fourth place in the 4×100 in 46.93 seconds as McPherson took ninth place in the 800.
Sam DeLeon cleared 10 feet for fourth place in the pole vault. Brendan Coffey was sixth in the mile in 4:53.20, with Noah DeRochie (5:16.09) ninth as Coffey later took eighth place in the 3,200-meter run.
Christian Winkler picked up a fourth-place finish in the discus with a throw of 109’8″. Ben Nichols, throwing the shot put 38’10”, beat out Will Kmetz (38’5 3/4″) for sixth place.
Chad Carges was seventh in the pentathlon with 1,661 points, Saulo Ferreira got seventh place in the 400 hurdles and Justin Gagnon was eighth in the 110 high hurdles.
In the 4×400 relay, Boone, Sean McPherson, Hunter Sattler and Jake Robbins were seventh in 3:48.35. DeRochie, James McPherson, Tony Koppers and Elliott Hale took eighth in the 4×800 relay in 10:03.29.
